And yet Haugwitz assured the Prussian King and council that he had looked Napoleon through and through, and had discerned an unexpressed wish to deal easily with Prussia.

As to his acceptance of these changes in the Schoenbrunn Treaty, Haugwitz felt no doubt whatever, at least so his foe, Hardenberg, states.

But the Prussian Ministers were now proposing, not the offensive and defensive treaty of alliance that Napoleon required, but rather a mediation for peace between France and England.

They were, in fact, striving to steer halfway between Napoleon and George III .-- and gain Hanover.

Verily, here was a belief in half measures passing that of women.
The envoy despatched to assure Napoleon's assent to these new conditions was the very man who had quailed before the Emperor at Schoenbrunn.